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What the Student-Loan Debate Overlooks

Ronald Brownstein The Atlantic
President Biden’s loan-forgiveness plan offers younger Americans the same benefits that Boomers have been afforded all along.

Geico Workers Organizing in Amherst NY

J. Dale Shoemaker PopularResistance.org
Efforts to unionize the insurance giant’s suburban operation is met with pushback from management.

600 SUVs ‘Disarmed’ in One Night

Damien Gayle The Guardian
Tyre Extinguishers say ‘climate disaster’ vehicles targeted in nine countries including the UK, France and Canada .

Labor Must Take on Capital

Saqib Bhatti and Stephen Lerner Jacobin
Unions must expand beyond narrow bargaining to challenge those who hold wealth and power at the highest levels. Most unions are accustomed to bargaining with their direct employers, as they have done for decades. But the financialization of the economy has rendered that structure obsolete. In order to win for workers, unions need to take their demands directly to those who actually have the money and control. They can often be found on Wall Street.